Leonid Dombrovsky

Leonid A. Dombrovsky is a highly regarded expert in radiative transfer in scattering media as applied to power engineering, geophysics, and biomedicine. Currently holding the position of Chief Researcher at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow, Russia, he has made significant contributions to the field. Leonid Dombrovsky earned his PhD from MIPT in 1974, followed by a Doctor of Science degree in 1990. Prof. Dombrovsky has published over 300 research papers, several books and book chapters. Of particular note are the monographs published in New York in 1996, 2010, and 2023. In recognition of his achievements in the science and art of heat and mass transfer, Prof. Dombrovsky was awarded the prestigious A.V. Luikov Medal in 2016, followed by the William Begell Medal in 2018. The cooperation of Leonid Dombrovsky with his colleagues from Australia, Germany, France, Israel, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA over the past 28 years has played a crucial role in enhancing the overall expertise and diversity of the physical models developed. As a result, advances have been achieved in a wide range of fields, encompassing heat transfer in rocket engines and solar thermochemical reactors, thermal processes in industrial nuclear reactors, microwave emission of foam on the ocean surface, radar remote sensing of atmospheric clouds, solar heating and melting of snow and ice, shielding of thermal radiation by evaporating or sublimating droplet and solid particle clouds, stabilization and control of levitating droplet clusters, airborne spreading of viruses, and infrared thermal treatment of human tumors.